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    Human languages are manifestations of cosmic articulation... — Carmelics
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    Human languages are manifestations of cosmic articulation rather than purely human constructs.

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    • 1.The process of articulation of the Dharma by the hosshin generates everything in the cosmos.
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    • 2.Human languages are among the things generated by that articulation.
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    • 3.Therefore human languages are manifestations of the hosshin's cosmic articulation.
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    • 1.Languages exhibit arbitrary sign-signified relations (Saussure) that vary radically across cultures, inconsistent with a unified cosmic source.
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    • 2.If cosmic articulation generated all languages equally, we would expect structural universality, but linguistic diversity falsifies this prediction.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations establish that linguistic meaning is constituted by communal practice, not prior metaphysical structures.
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    • 2.Any cosmic source of language is epistemically inaccessible without the human practices that already constitute linguistic meaning, making the cosmic grounding explanatorily redundant.
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    Therefore human languages are manifestations of the hosshin's cosmic a...90%Human languages are among the things generated by that articulation.86%The cosmos functions like a language that can be read or heard.83%Only humans have language.82%

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    In the broader sense of mantra, the whole cosmos is a language or text that must be “read” if one is to receive its meaning (the Dharma). Kūkai expresses this in the term shōjijissō. Shōji means “sound-and-sign.” Shō (or: sō), meaning “sound,” is the breath of Dainichi, the vibrations of the five material elements in their mutually non-obstructively colliding interplay that resonate sounds through the air. In the narrower sense, this would be the mantras voiced in ritual. Ji, meaning “sign,” “wo
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